anbody want to see a nice cut view of a D9?

[tenmmike]

http://www2.cc22.ne.jp/~harada/D_9.jpg

[tenmmike]

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[simon]

Good picture though, the colour Zero one (A6M5c I think) is good too.

[GregP]

Nice pic. Looks like the one that used to be in the Champlin Fighter Museum in Mesa, Arizona, U.S.A that is now for sale for $4M. The wings look right, too.

It was restored with the assistance of Kurt Tank, and is the most complete Fw 190 D in exiistence at this time. We have two Fw 190 D-9's in the U.S.A. now. One is in Washington D.C and the other belongs to Doug Champlin. I believe that his Fw 190 D-9 was restored and the story is going around hare that the wings from the Smithsonian's Fw 190 D-9 were on Doug's airplane, and vice versa. They discovered the mistake, exchanged wings, and now Doug's airplane is for sale.

Whoever gets it, should anyone decide to actually pony up the money, will get a plane that copuld fly, complete with the original overhauled engine and even a spare engine (unsure of operational status of the spare). I have seen it started up and running, though they declined to fly it. The engine sounds really smooth and I wish it would have flown at that time (late 1980's), but it was not to be.

A really wonderful piece of aeronautical history.